Section team title information

From the WPIAL Web page:

On Wednesday, January 21, a one-day section championship tournament doubleheader will be held prior to the WPIAL team championship tournament. At the section championship tournament, the first place finisher from each subsection will wrestle the second place team from the opposite subsection in the same section. The two winners will then wrestle for the section championship. The winner will be declared the section champion and will be presented the section plaque. The defeated team will be the 2nd place finisher in the section.

The two defeated teams in the preliminary match will wrestle for 3rd and 4th place in the section. The top four (4) place finishers will advance to the WPIAL Team Championship Tournament In the event of a two-way tie for first or second, head to head competition will prevail.

A tie of three or more teams will be broken by comparing the head-to-head competition between the tied teams that may result in one or more of the teams demonstrating a higher cumulative total of victories. If the three or more tied teams have identical records against each other, the NFHS tie breaking system (Rule 9-2-2) will be used to break the tie.

In 2008-09, the section championship tournament will be held at the site of the first place team in the “A” subsections and in 2009-10 in the “B” subsections. If the site designated site for the tournament is not available, the WPIAL will assign the site based on the League “Home Site Policy”.